Host: The University of New Hampshire’s English Graduate Organization (EGO)
Location: University of New Hampshire—Durham, Memorial Union Building
Held: Saturday, April 13, 2012. 8:30 am to 5 pm.
Contacts: Eden Wales Freedman (eef25@wildcats.unh.edu) and Luke Dietrich (laz55@wildcats.unh.edu), Co-Presidents of EGO

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Thomas Newkirk, Professor of English, University of New Hampshire

Call for Papers:

In “The Art of Fiction,” Toni Morrison differentiates between reading as a skill and reading as an art. The skill, Morrison writes, enables readers to “negotiate life with some measure of control.” The art is a “different beast all together.”

This conference explores the scope and substance of Morrison’s “beast,” by examining the diversity and divergence of readerly responses to literary texts. Papers should consider in their analyses the purpose and process of reading. Namely, what constitutes our reading experience as scholars, students, and teachers? What makes reading an “art;” what does the practice entail; and why does—or why should—it matter?

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